Is there a "timeline" linking RTS's?

Seeing as how the 3 main titles in question (Supreme Commander, Total Annihilation, Planetary Annihilation) are not by the same people, there can't be any official "canon" source of a timeline. But since 2 of the 3 are supposed to be "spiritual successors", its not hard to picture how they all might fit. Has anyone built a timeline linking these three titles?

I have a mental picture that links the three, but no idea if its accurate; I might be missing some key information. But my impression is, Supreme Commander comes first, Planetary Annihilation comes second, and Total Annihilation comes last.

In Supreme Commander, we have 2 (and eventually a third) faction battling each other for control, but only over the systems that are already actively owned. It hasn't devolved yet into a battle of resources.

In Planetary Annihilation, there are no factions. Each side splinters, and even the splinters have splinters, such that every commander is his own faction. Large scale reasons for war have been lost, and now its devolved to individual struggles over imagined slights, revenge and all the other petty reasons for war. Commanders are struggling to gain power over their neighbors, and so fullscale exploration of the galaxy has begun, in the hopes of finding something new. But, what began as a conflict in Supreme Commander, is now escalating into a war that is decimating billions of worlds...

And finally in Total Annihilation, we see the inevitable conclusion. In the early days of the war, splintered factions slowly formed larger entities until only two remain: those who wish to upload their minds into machines, and those who wish to remain pure. While the Core now has machine memory and Arm now has racial memory, there are still billions of battles long forgotten, in places no longer known. Struggles sometimes unearth undiscovered ruins, ancient weapons and old forgotten technology. It is some of those discoveries that led to the eventual destruction of the Core...

And who knows what happens after that. How does a galaxy enjoy peace when they've known nothing but war for (arguably) billions of years? Maybe an Arm Commander steps out of his mech for the last time and settles on an insignificant blue-green world of primitive apes...

Anyway, thats my take on the timeline. Anyone care to revise? Anyone who follows these titles more closely care to make a more accurate timeline with dating? Bonus points if you can find another RTS that can fit in the timeline too.

there is no timeline.

but as in SupCom there are humans fighting and in PA there are only machines, SupCom would be earlier than PA.

TA would be in between probably

They might have been developed by different companies, but several of Uber's Key Staff have worked on all 3 titles as part of those different developers.

But yeah they aren't really related at all story wise.

Mike

lol fan canons

lol fan fiction

Fixed.

Funny thinking:

1. SupCom . The idea of separating mind and body is born, conflicts about it begin between UEF and Cybran, and well the aeon play a role somehow, too.

2. FA - The Seraphim annoy everyone, so they have to defend together.

3. SupCom 2 - After the Seraphim are beaten down, they have a bit of peace before they start fighting again.

4. TA - After 4k years UEF and Aeon are united and call themself Arm, the Cybran now call themself Core.

5. PA - After some more thousands of years every living being is dead. All that remains are robots and automatic Commanders that fight all over the galaxy.

In a way the Cybran/Core have won, I would say. All that remains are robots

Wouldn't this be a complete reversal of political / moral standings? The Core wanted to force everyone to upload their brains, the Cybrans were never trying to force people to become symbiants

The Arm just wanted the choice of mind uploading, UEF was more join or die, same thing with the Aeon and join the way or be cleansed.

QAI got crazy but was defeated. 1k years later the cybrans thought they could build a better QAI, QAI2. But it eventually got mad too and turned against cybran human beings.

Just imagine the Basilisk QAI2 would have designed! xD

Mike

Actually, when last we left the SupCom universe, QAI was still functional and slightly implied to be behind the events of SupCom 2. See the post-credits FA hint movie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL39WuxqAAc

Kind of makes me sad how poorly SupCom 2 was recieved (and written, I will accept almost any fiction that's not a romance type novel or too graphic/gory but man that was baaaad in some spots).